I am wondering which laptop to choose…
one with an NVidia chip?
or one with an ATI chip?
Also, what else should I look for?
Pentium?
AMD?
Celeron?
What did you choose? The new Toshiba laptop has an excellent screen and uses the new fx 5600 video card.
Dell M50 is the ideal system for 3d apparently.
If you find any new info do post back 
ive been there before asking people all about laptops and Maya…all i can say is…get something with a fast GeForce4 or GeForceFX card…the Radeons are fast but sketchy at best with Maya…been using Maya with nVidia cards for at least 3 years and the consumer cards keep outpacing the highend cards every year…highend cards arent worth it…
the Dell M50 and M60 dont seem worth the $4-5k that they sell it for…i would go with consumer-prosumer end…
i work on a VPRMatrix laptop with a GeForce4 with 32megs and it totally rocks…just make sure you get 1 gig of RAM…thats where everyone forgets about laptops with Maya…